Former Miami coach Charlie Coles remembered fondly

As impressive off the court as he was on it

3:15 PM,
Jun. 8, 2013

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Charlie Coles put up some impressive numbers in a lifetime of basketball, but no numbers could tell his full story.

Coles, who died Friday morning at 71, little more than a year after retiring as men's basketball coach at Miami University, his alma mater, won a school-record 263 games in 16 seasons in Oxford. Counting his six seasons at Central Michigan, his teams won 355 games overall, including a record 218 Mid-American Conference games. As a player, he scored 1,096 points in just three seasons and made the Miami Hall of Fame.